Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, I wish I did, but I don't, nor do I own any of the other charecters from the show, but I am bound to come up with additional charecters that come from my warped little mine, those I DO own as I do this storyline.
Not What I Seem
Chapter 5
I just want to warn everyone, this chapter contains rape and abuse as well as a fair bit of swearing, it was needed for the storyline but if you are easily offended then don't read any further. You have been warned. Don't complain to me if you don't like what you read.
Diamond paced around his office. Angry that he had let Serenity out of his grip.
Slamming his fist down on the beautiful dark oak desk he screamed at no one in particular.
"Damn it! I should have gone home with that Bitch last night!"
Lifting up his hand he looked down at the fist sized dint he had created in the wood. The sight of the ruined desk did nothing to calm his anger. He walked towards the door and flung it back violently.
"Emerald! Get in here now!"
His secretary looked up from filing her long sharp nails. Startled at his tone of voice she dropped the nail file but left it as she stood up quickly and walked over towards the now empty doorway where her boss once stood.
Straightening her short black skirt, that was not at all appropriate and only covering the top part of her thighs, and her low cut vile green suit jacket she walked seductively into Diamonds office.
Closing and locking the door softly behind her she stood for a moment and took in the appearance of Diamond standing in front of his desk obviously trying to calm himself down.
"Diamond,"
She said softly, the huskiness of her voice reaching his ears.
He turned around to find her standing just behind him. He stepped back slightly to study her.
She truly was beautiful, not even coming close to the beauty that Serenity had, but still, beautiful in her own right. She had long black hair that had green streaks wound through it. She had dark green eyes that were wild and could never be tamed by any man.
These very eyes looked upon him with lust, something he was very used to.
And her body, he knew from personal experience what that body could do to a man. Her long shapely legs were well toned and tanned from hours in the sun. He allowed his eyes to wonder up from her legs to her jacket, she was obviously not wearing anything under it except for the black lacy bra he could only just see from his slight height above her.
Diamond stepped up to her and reached out to pull her to him roughly. The kiss they shared held nothing but lust and passion, it was hard and brutal and yet each got from it what they wanted.
With one sweep of his mighty arm, Diamond cleared his large oak desk, the fist sized dint in the centre forgotten for now, and he picked up Emerald and sat her on the desk. She smiled seductively at him as he pushed her already high skirt up around her waist and she wrapped her long tanned legs around him.
With skilful fingers, Emerald started to undo his black leather belt in order to reach her destination. Diamond pulled off his refined suit jacket and loosened his tie. With a satisfied smile Emerald pulled his belt out of his pants and started to unzip the crotch.
Suddenly there was a sharp knock at the door. Diamond looked up suddenly, his jaw tightening with anger at being disturbed. He looked harshly at Emerald and grabbed her tightly by the shoulders.
"I thought I told you to cancel all my appointments!"
She pulled back from his tight grip and stood up off the desk.
"I did cancel all your appointments. I have no idea who that could possibly be Sir."
Diamond gave her one final glare then zipping his pants back up he barked
"Who Is It?"
The only answer to his demanding question was another quick rap at the door.
Diamond pulled his jacket back on as Emerald was pulling her stockings back up.
"Hurry up Emerald! And go find out who is at the damn door!"
The secretary flashed a semi-hurt look at her employer then with a sweep of her hair over her shoulder she finished fixing herself up then with an added seductive sway of her hips she stormed out of the large office.
Emerald swung the door open quickly coming only inches from a tall red-headed woman with manipulative green flashing eyes. Emerald smiled at the woman who was of about equal height to her possibly half an inch taller if that.
"Excuse me miss..."
The powerful looking red-head smirked.
"Beryl, Beryl Winshere." Without waiting for Emerald to comment she started to push past her towards the door.
"I'm sorry Ms Winshere, but Mr. Cramer isn't available right now, he is in the middle of some very important business that really cannot wait."
Beryl purposely ignored the extra emphasis placed on the word 'very' and waved Emerald off over her shoulder as she continued to walk into the large office, setting eyes on where Diamond was attempting to reorganize his desk.
"Diamond" she greeted... "Now I can see what she meant about 'Very' important business...why don't you just buy carpet, I'm sure that would be much more comfortable then the top of the desk, although, come to think about it I don't expect your secretaries would complain very much where it was that you got down their pants as long as you were down them...right?"
Diamond narrowed his eyes at the controlling fiery headed witch standing in front of him.
"You are on dangerous ground Beryl" he spit her name out like it was poison, that had to be gotten rid of before it contaminated him with whatever evil her soul contained.
"We are not friends, we are not even business partners, unless you are here for a reason I suggest you get out of my sight before you make my day worse then it has already been and I have the need to take it out on one such as yourself."
Beryl smiled coyly and raised one perfectly shaped eyebrow at his remark and walked closer to him slowly.
"Diamond, Diamond, Diamond," she chastised softly "you would be surprised at how much you and I have in common."
He turned his head in complete disgust.
"Me? Have anything in common with you? That must be at least the most amusing thing I have heard all day. Thank you Beryl you improved my day, you made me laugh. Now if you would excuse me I have some extremely important business to attend to and well, you have shown that you have nothing of interest to tell me...in other words please leave before I am forced to call security and you loose whatever shred of dignity you have left."
Beryl smirked, something Diamond was learning that she did often. She turned her back to him and started to walk back towards the door; she paused for a moment then turned to face him one final time.
"You know Diamond; if I didn't have explicate interest in some of your affairs I would suggest that you watch who you make enemies with, but instead..." She looked thoughtful for a moment "Good luck with acquiring the hand of one Miss Serenity Celeste. I hear she is extremely popular with the guys lately especially one certain dark haired stranger with whom she left a certain club last night after you failed to hold on to her attention...Goodbye Diamond"
With that Beryl stalked out of the office, only pausing again to throw a satisfied glace towards Emerald who once again sat at her desk in front of the door filing her nails. Emerald threw the woman a deadly glace then ignored her as she continued stalking towards the elevator.
Diamond walked back around his desk and sat down he spun around on his chair to face the large window behind his desk he looked down at the street below the building and the many people bustling along the street. Bugs. They were nothing more then insects in his way to getting what he wanted. He wanted Serenity and nothing was going to stop him, in order to get her, he would do anything he had to, and if that included acquiring the help of Beryl Winshere then he would stoop to doing just that.
He pushed the button on the intercom "Emerald would you please find me a contact number and the current address of Ms. Beryl Winshere."
Emerald looked up towards the speaker on her desk with surprise; she had heard the argument between the two only minutes before.
'What could he possibly want with that bitch?' she thought to herself, but she readily went ahead and did as he asked, happy to please him, yet all the while, plotting to get rid of her new obstacles; Serenity Celeste and Beryl Winshere.
#MEANWHILE#
Serena struggled to breathe, saying anything seemed pretty much out of the question but she tried anyway as she felt his hands on her.
"Dar...Dare...Darien...please...stop...." She struggled, considering giving up and letting him do his worse but instead she squirmed under him and pulled her hand out from under herself and moved it to his ribs and started to tickle him.
"HA! How does it feel Darien?" she gave him a funny look at the face he made "Don't like getting a taste of you own medicine huh?"
She still was regaining her breath, he had been tickling her for the last 10 minutes and her side hurt from laughing so much. It was good to let her guard down for a while. She felt so comfortable around him, but she still allowed herself to completely be herself around him.
Darien sighed as she released him and he rolled out from under her, breathing heavily. He had thought that tickling her was going to be fun; he hadn't counted on her getting back at him for it. He looked up at the love seat he had just rolled off and the girl lying on it looking down at him.
"What are you thinking about Sere?"
She gave him a questioning look and shrugged, keeping her silence for a few moments...
"Nothing Darien."
She looked away from him and pushed herself into a sitting position looking anywhere but at him.
He sighed inwardly and wanted to smack himself over the head.
'I'm pushing her too far too fast, she is going to get away if I let myself slip like that again, she isn't ready to let me in...'
"How about some lunch Darien" she flashed him a brilliant smile as she stood up and extended him a slender hand to help him up. He readily accepted her hand and pulled himself up.
"Sure thing Serena...lead the way."
#MEANWHILE#
The early afternoon sun shone through the lacy curtains and splashed over the bed.
The blonde hair sparkled like spun gold and the young goddess breathed evenly as she slept soundly.
She felt a strong arm wrap itself around her tightly as she stirred slightly.
Opening her eyes she smiled over at the sleeping form next to her. Her head rested on his chest as she ran her delicate fingers in random patterns on his chest as it rose and fell evenly.
She heard him chuckle under his breath softly as she found a ticklish spot.
"Morning baby" he mumbled
She smiled, as she cuddled closer into his arms and breathed in deeply inhaling his scent. He smelt of cinnamon and that smell that all men seem to have.
She raised her head and looked over at the clock and giggled.
"Its not quite morning anymore Andy."
He looked over his shoulder at the red numbers on the clock.
"It seems you are right my dear"
He winked at her and flipped her on top of him and smiled up at her as he watched her golden locks flow down her perfect form.
"Mina, have I ever told you how absolutely beautiful you are?"
She giggled and blushed a deep shade of red.
"Hmmm yea you told me a few times last night and this morning but I don't mind hearing it a few more times"
With this she stuck her tongue out at the man underneath her as he laughed at her antics.
"What do you want to do today Mina?"
The couple made their plans for the day, agreeing to just spend the day getting to know each other better. With this planned, Andrew placed a light kiss on Mina's waiting lips and then pushed himself out of bed and started to walk towards the kitchen. Mina's eyes followed him as he walked.
"Ummm....Andy...baby...aren't you forgetting something?" she nodded towards his complete lack of clothing.
He winked at her. "There's no one else here is there so it doesn't really matter now does it beautiful."
She laughed.
"I guess not love." With that she stood up and followed him to the kitchen to await for the delicious food he was bound to be preparing.
#MEANWHILE#
Serena sat across the table from Darien watching him eat the sandwich she had made him. It was the limit of her food preparation ability but he had smiled and said that anything she made would be wonderful.
The silence around them held an air of uncertainty. He sensed she was deep in thought and rather then interrupting her thoughts he silently sat with his lunch. Every now and then he would allow his eyes to wander to her petite frame, she didn't notice him watching as she stared off into space.
Her food sat in front of her, forgotten as her head swarmed with thoughts. She was confused, never had a guy been the cause of so many different feelings inside of her. She put aside the obvious, he was hot, a fantastic lover and so far he was treating her right.
'I wish things were as simple as all that.' Questions of her feelings for him bombarded her with every argument she came up with in her head. It was just supposed to be a one night fling, 'yea right, normally you can pick out guys who are going to get clingy, why was last night any different?' She didn't want a relationship, that's why she always had a new guy, never get attached you always get hurt 'Don't bullshit yourself; your always watching happy couples wishing that was you.'
She shrugged off the small voice in her head as if it wasn't an unnatural thing to be arguing with herself. She turned her gaze towards the dark haired god sitting across from her; he seemed to be oblivious to everything but the food on the plate in front of him, which was a good thing she didn't want him to notice her being deep in thought. All her life she had avoided love, her father wasn't close to her, although neither one felt any loss for it. He had never treated her mother right and from this Serena had learnt never to trust any man in her life.
#FLASHBACK#
Serena was startled awake by a crashing sound downstairs, she rolled over in bed and glanced at the clock near her head, 3am, the servants would all be in bed by now, there shouldn't have been anyone awake that late.
Quietly the young girl of about 9, pushed back her soft blankets and padded across to room to her closed door, she opened it and peered out the crack down the hall. There was a faint light from further down the hall, probably from downstairs she assumed so she crept out of her room and walked down the hall. Half way to the grand staircase she heard voices; they must have been loud because she couldn't see any lights on in any of the rooms around her. She followed the shouts towards the back of the impressive house, the darkness consuming every corner and the shadows dancing over the walls. Any normal child would have found it rather frightening but all Serena could think about was finding out where all the noise was coming from.
As she neared the kitchen a thin stream of light filtered out from the half closed door. She walked over to the door and nudged it open ever so slightly so she could clearly see the couple inside the room who were arguing rather loudly. She instantly noticed they were her parents, she hadn't known her father was home from his most recent business trip. He must have gotten home late and her mother always waited for him, but why were they fighting? He had been gone for longer then normal this time; two weeks, normally he was only gone for a few days but this time it had been an emergency and he was needed for longer.
She sat on the floor, eager to hear the sound of her fathers voice, if they hadn't sounded do serious she would have run in and hugged him but she was taught never to interrupt adults. So with her knees hugged to her body she sat there and listened.
"Damnit Kenneth! Who was it this time? Your new secretary or the old one? Or was it someone entirely different for one? Or was there more then one? Two weeks, bloody hell is your family that damn unpleasant that you have to run away for two goddamn weeks?"
"Calm down Ilene. I went away for business you know this. You're making a big deal out of nothing. Now just leave me alone I have just gotten home I don't need you giving me shit already."
Serena could hear her mother pacing and then it sounded like she was picking up whatever had crashed to the floor earlier.
"You know your neglecting your daughter, she is going to start wondering why you're never around, and do you think I'm going to lie to her when she asks? NO I'm going to tell her just how big a son of a bitch her father actually is. She will know just how many whores occupied his bed during his 'lonely' nights away and just how easy it was for his models to make it easy, all they had to do was sleep with him once, twice if they were good enough."
She was practically screaming now and Serena was shocked at the things her mother was yelling her beloved father, she was waiting for him to deny all these horrible things, she told herself that her mother was just upset about how long he had been gone this time, none of it was true, it couldn't be true.
Her father was the most wonderful man in her world, she only hoped she could end up with a man as wonderful as him, she knew none of these things could be true.
He however remained calm; instead of arguing with her for saying such horrendous things about him he only smiled at her silently and took his time in replying.
"Ilene...be very careful with what you say, if you ever speak ill of me towards our daughter you will never again see the light of day. You know I can hurt you and nobody ever questions it. It won't just be where people can't see it next time dear wife; you will have to call all your friends and tell them you're sick and can't get out of bed so you can't spend time together. And we both know that you won't tell anybody because you're too used to this plushy lifestyle you couldn't live without it."
His voice became dangerously low by the end of his speech, he sounded dark and Serena flinched at her fathers words, still seeking for evidence of this all being a bad dream of some sort of game played by her parents.
There was another crash, her mother had obviously given up cleaning the mess she had already mad and dropped it all on the tiled floor again.
"Don't you dare threaten me Kenneth Celeste! You may think your charm and Charisma works on everyone but just because it works on your little whores doesn't mean it will work on the woman who has been stuck married to you for almost 15 years. I have no problem leaving you here with your millions and taking myself and your beloved daughter out from under your nose never to be seen again."
Quicker then lightning Ken pushed his chair out from under him and he had his wife pinned up against the far wall on the other side of the room. From where they were they could not see the door so Serena took this opportunity to sneak into the room and hide in the cupboard so she could watch what was happening easier.
Ken had his hand clenching Ilene's throat roughly and she was obviously struggling to breathe. Serena forced herself to stay put and not run to help her mother, she knew enough to know her father had a temper, maybe that's all this was but she knew she wouldn't be any help to her mother she wouldn't probably make things worse.
"K...Ken...please...please put me down" She struggled to speak and was looking about frantically as he held her tightly his grip not letting go. Without warning he dropped her on the ground where she raised herself to a sitting position and breathed heavily glaring daggers at his form walking over towards the table where a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels sat.
Serena tried not to cry, but she could feel the tears stinging at the corners of her eyes threatening to fall. She brought her hand to her eyes and wiped away the tears as she sat quiet as a mouse and watched her father drink the last of the contents of the bottle.
Ilene just sat on the ground with her back leaning up against the wall watching him. He sat back down on the chair but turned it to face his wife and he contemplated her for a few moments. And for a while it was silent, both parties just sitting quietly and watching the other. He smiled at her on her place on the floor, he had a weird look in his eyes, he had trouble seeing straight but his focus was obvious. He got up slowly and walked towards Ilene and slowly helped her stand to her feet.
He caressed her soft cheek and looked into her eyes. His other hand held her firmly on her back and pressed her body to his.
"Why do you do this to me baby? You know you're the only one I love; I only use those other girls for physical needs, just to spare you and keep you lovely and beautiful. You know you the only one who will ever matter to me, if I lost you I don't know what I would do with myself."
Ilene looked at him with uncertainty, she seemed to be having an inner battle with herself about whether she should believe him or not.
"Please smile and tell me you love me baby."
His smooth lines eventually won her over she smiled and gave into his pleas
"Of course I love you Kenny,"
He smiled triumphantly and went to kiss her. She turned away from him though and his eyes turned dangerous once again.
"What's wrong Ilene? Aren't I good enough for you?"
He almost spat at her, his rage had come back and it was worse then before.
Ilene flinched valuably as his slowly raised his voice again. Both Ilene and Serena knew that there was no chance of anyone coming to help. Kenneth paid them to keep out of the families business and not to gossip, so even if they did hear the commotion in the kitchen, no one would dare to interrupt.
"Come on Ken, don't over react. You're making a deal out of nothing. But you're drunk and wouldn't it be better if you can enjoy being with me when you're sober?"
It did nothing to calm his anger; in fact Serena was sure his face went an entire different shade of red altogether.
"Listen Ilene and listen really closely. You were just fucking complaining that I spend too much time with other women; well that's what happens when you don't give me what I want, when I want it. Now I haven't seen nor had my beautiful wife in over two weeks, and now that I am here you ARE going to give me what I want, otherwise me holding you up against the wall earlier will seem like nothing compared to what I will do. Do you understand me Ilene?"
She stared up at him, a glimmer of fear showed in her eyes, but she had always been a strong willed woman and she was not going to give up her dignity to a piece of slime like him.
"If you touch me again Kenneth, you will be the one to regret it, I don't care about your money or your threats or even how many women you have slept with. I will not be pushed around by a lowly piece of shit like you now get the fuck off me or the next time you see me will be in court when your appearing for sexual harassment and a custody battle."
She meant every word of it but rather then listen to her, Ken raised his hand and back-handed her, across the cheek, instantly causing her to taste blood in her mouth and she had no doubt that the next morning she would wear a dark purple bruise. She winced as once again his hand came crashing down upon her face; this time on the other side, the taste of blood in her mouth alerted her to the cuts she now had on her mouth and she spat at him, instantly realizing the mistake she had made and regretting it.
His anger seemed to flare at her show of rebellion in his mind, how dare she stand up against him, he hit her once again this time he put all his weight into it and sent her hurtling to the floor. She hit the floor with a soft cry but forced herself not to let tears fall.
A soft cry came from the cupboard, Ilene instantly knew it was Serena hidden in there and felt her heart brake for her daughter who must have witnessed the whole thing.
Meanwhile Serena was curled up in a ball on the floor of the cupboard watched her father abuse her beautiful mother. She saw the blood her mother had spit out and how she could no longer stand up due to the probable concussion her abusive father had caused. She saw him throw her to the floor and could no longer hold out a cry quickly she clamped her hands over her mouth but it wasn't quick enough. Her mother shot a quick glance towards to cupboard and Serena knew that she had been found out. She hid her head in her knees and blocked out the sounds she heard from outside.
Ilene turned her attention back to Ken as he walked back to the bottle of Jack Daniels and skulled the last splash of liquid from it, she tried to move but coughed in her struggle and fell back towards the ground with a thud. Just the reminded that she was there seemed to once again set Kenneth off and he smashed the empty bottle against the wooden table. The sound of the bottle smashing made its way to Serena's ears and she jumped slightly and feared for both herself and her mother.
Ken stalked over towards Ilene with the bottle neck clenched in his hand, he paused about a meter away and once again watched her, this time however it was like a predator watched its prey just before it was about to pounce. She backed up against the wall and shielded her face and head as well as she possibly could. He clenched his teeth and peered over at her, his breath reeking of alcohol and his vision was blurred. He threw the bottle on her direction with such force that it threw him off his feet, thankfully due to his drunken state it didn't hit her, although it smashed near her on the wall and as it shattered the pieces of glass imbedded themselves in her once soft clean skin.
"Please stop this Ken; there is no need for this." She begged, she was over keeping her last shred of dignity; this was not something her daughter needed to witness although she was positive this would have scarred her for life and ruined her relationship with her father.
"Shut up you bitch. You really need to learn your place, and tonight I plan on teaching you where you belong."
He stalked up to her and grabbed her hand and dragged her to him; forcing her to once again stand. She shot a quick glance towards the door of the cupboard which thankfully was right next to the door to the kitchen so Ken thought that her fearful glance was looking for someone to help.
"Don't worry baby, no one will interrupt us, I pay everyone enough to mind their own business for exactly this reason. So now you'll either give me what I want or I'll take what I want from you."
Her bottom lip shook with fear.
"K...Ken...ok...please...we can do whatever you want...just...please...not here...lets go up to our on Kenny." She tried to grad him towards the door but he pulled back angrily.
"NO! I want it here and now and we are not going anywhere..."
She looked around her, willing for someone to come and save her or at least her daughter.
"Please Kenny; you can have whatever you want, just let's go to our room."
His face went red again as he hit her in the stomach making her double to the ground.
"Don't not argue with me woman."
With that he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder and walked over to the table where her roughly threw her down onto the top and ripped off her once white blouse, now splattered with blood. She cried with pain as his hands pulled her skirt upwards and he shoved two fingers forcefully into her causing her to cry out in pain.
"Come on stop making such a fucking fuss you stupid bitch. We both know you like it rough no enjoy it, because we know you want me."
His harsh words and even harsher actions made Serena cry in the cupboard, with tears streaking down her face she watched through the crack in the door as her father raped and abused her mother. All the while her mother lay on the table, a faint cry would come from her mouth every now and then but she had given up fighting knowing it would do no good. Occasionally he would hit her again, and on several occasions he would stop his vigorous thrusting into her and just punch at her face or her stomach for a while till she once again stopped crying.
The entire time Serena sat in the cupboard and cried, blocking her ears from the horrendous sounds and closing her eyes with her head buried in her knees.
I was going to keep going but I figure thats enough for one chapter. This is something I feel very strongly about and this was a difficult chapter for me to write which is why it took so long to get out. I hope you all like it. I have now finished school so I should have more time to write although until the end of November I still have to study for exams so they will occupy most of my time as will my friends, but writing calms me so I promise that to make up for taking so long with this one I will have the next one out asap. Remember I love review, whether they are good or bad, it shows where I am going wrong and probed that im not just writing this for myself, please read and review my other fic as well, although I have major writers block with it at the moment. Hugs. Heaven Sent Angel